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Posted on October 20, 2017March 21, 2018

Meditation Tips for Beginners

A lot of people nowadays have thought about starting meditation to improve their mental health, reduce stress or for spiritual reasons.  If you're one of those people or someone who has just started I thought I would share a few tips that I have found helpful. Set up a regular time and put it in …

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Posted on October 9, 2017October 11, 2017

Aversion. The Flip Side of Craving.

In my last post I wrote about tanha or craving from a Buddhist perspective.  I realized after writing that post that I should also write a piece on aversion, as aversion and craving are really two sides of the same coin.  Let me explain how that works.  Briefly defined, aversion is the strong desire of …

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Posted on October 6, 2017October 6, 2017

On Craving. The Second Noble Truth.

In my last blog post I wrote about The First Noble Truth.  The First Noble Truth about life that the Buddha observed is that life is filled with a particular kind of suffering called dukkha.  In the Second Noble Truth he described the cause of human suffering as craving.  Let's see if we can connect …

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Posted on October 4, 2017October 4, 2017

On Suffering and The First Noble Truth

When you start studying Buddhism you start running into lists, lots and lots of lists.  This probably has a lot to do with Buddhism originating in an oral culture where monks had to remember a ton of religious material entirely by memory.  Numbered lists were one way to help give the memory a boost.  Rhyming …

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